Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

Isn’t materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.

Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.

Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken?